Month: January 2010

The barefoot debate is about to get a little bit hotter. A new study to be released tommorow by Lieberman in Nature takes an evolutionary look at barefoot running. In the study, they compared barefoot and shoe running on a

The running shoe model needs to be fixed. Pronation, Motion Control, Cushioning, and Stability shoes? Get rid of them all. It’s not just barefoot running and minimalism versus running shoes, the either/or situation many portray it to be. It’s much

The above video is of me showing a trick on how to increase hamstring flexibility instantly. Why you would need to do this, I’m not sure. The only time I’ve ever seen a purpose for it is when my sister

This is a sort of mini blog post. Dathan Ritzenhein (sub 13 5k runner for U.S.) posted an interesting blog about how his training has changed from his High School days until the present. It’s a good read and can

Hill Sprints/Form Analysis from Steve Magness on Vimeo. This video is a combination of form work and sprint work. As those who have read this blog know, I’m a big believer in sprint training for distance runners. The video shows

New Drugs in Endurance Sports Coming… This is not something I really look forward to writing, but I figured I might as well get the word out there to the general public. The recent admission of Mark Mcgwire made it

Long to Short/Short to Long: What we can learn from Sprinters regarding base building: For the endurance people reading this, you might not be familiar with what the title means. In sprint training, there is a constant debate over whether